This is the blog of the online CRBR, a forum for people who work on Belgian refugees during WW1 (UK, FR, NL...) and for people who want to share their personal history.

Monday, 10 March 2014

Belgian refugees on Wikipedia

As of 8 March, the article on 'Belgian refugees' has been published on Wikipedia. Submitted for review on 20 February and compiled by us ('cycletrans') from various existing Wikipedia sources, this is far from complete.

Trying to organise the material also proves how massively wide the subject is. Plenty of space for dozens of local initiatives and several academic projects to live alongside one another. Sharing information is much more a way forward than the opposite.

If we don't unravel these stories now, in the Centenary period, then when?